# Unemployment rate: France

7.542% in 2025, the latest year published. Figures for 35 years from 1991 to 2025 are below.

Share of the labor force without work, but actively looking for a job and available to start soon.

Source: ILO Modelled Estimates, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data. [Source and method](/sources/unemployment) · [All countries and regions](/unemployment).

## Every year

| Year | Value (%) |
| ---: | ---: |
| 2025 | 7.542 |
| 2024 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 7.335 |
| 2022 | 7.303 |
| 2021 | 7.871 |
| 2020 | 8.009 |
| 2019 | 8.415 |
| 2018 | 9.018 |
| 2017 | 9.409 |
| 2016 | 10.057 |
| 2015 | 10.354 |
| 2014 | 10.273 |
| 2013 | 9.913 |
| 2012 | 9.841 |
| 2011 | 9.228 |
| 2010 | 9.279 |
| 2009 | 9.122 |
| 2008 | 7.386 |
| 2007 | 8.008 |
| 2006 | 8.832 |
| 2005 | 8.882 |
| 2004 | 8.914 |
| 2003 | 8.306 |
| 2002 | 8.702 |
| 2001 | 8.61 |
| 2000 | 10.218 |
| 1999 | 11.981 |
| 1998 | 12.074 |
| 1997 | 12.566 |
| 1996 | 12.367 |
| 1995 | 11.834 |
| 1994 | 12.593 |
| 1993 | 11.32 |
| 1992 | 10.203 |
| 1991 | 9.134 |

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